Akar NusaMelaka
A port where the world met, and what that meeting left in our families.
WHERE THE STORIES ON THIS SHELF HAPPENED. SHAPES ARE SCHEMATIC.
Stories on this shelf
18 written, 6 coming soon
Parameswara and the founding of Melaka
A prince from Palembang chose a river mouth that would change the region.
Melaka · 4 min readZheng He and the treasure fleets in Melaka
A Chinese admiral visited Melaka seven times.
Melaka · 4 min readMelaka, the port of the world
By 1500, 80 languages were heard in the city.
Melaka · 4 min readThe Portuguese conquest of Melaka
Albuquerque took the port in 1511.
Melaka · 4 min readThe Bugis arrive: Opu Daeng Parani and the Riau court
Bugis warriors became kingmakers in the Malay world.
Melaka · 4 min readHang Li Po and the legend of the Chinese princess
A famous tale about a link between the Ming court and Melaka.
Melaka · 4 min readThe Melaka Sultanate and the laws that governed trade
The harbourmasters, the laws and the trade rules of a great port.
Melaka · 4 min readHang Tuah and the Malay hero stories
Legend, history and national pride mixed in one hero's name.
Melaka · 4 min readGujarati merchants of Melaka
A rich community of Muslim traders from western India.
Melaka · 4 min readTamil Chulia and Kling traders of Melaka
Tamil merchants gave the old word Kling a long history.
Melaka · 4 min readChinese in Melaka before 1511
Traders and officials stayed on, marrying into Malay families.
Melaka · 4 min readA Famosa and the Portuguese town
What the old fort shows about the people who built it.
Melaka · 4 min readTome Pires and the Suma Oriental
An apothecary who described everyone in Melaka.
Melaka · 4 min readThe Dutch capture Melaka, 1641
The Dutch East India Company ended Portuguese rule.
Melaka · 4 min readThe Johor-Riau world
A Malay sultanate that lived across the sea, not on one coast.
Melaka · 4 min readMinangkabau and the Negeri Sembilan story
How Minangkabau settlers shaped Negeri Sembilan's custom.
Melaka · 4 min readKedah, Siam and the founding of Penang, 1786
Francis Light and Kedah's bargain with the British.
Melaka · 4 min readRaffles, Singapore and the Treaty of 1824
The treaty that split the Malay world in two.
Tun Perak, the bendahara who shaped the Sultanate
A key minister in Melaka's golden age.
Eredia and the first map of Melaka
A Portuguese-Malay mapmaker who recorded the town.
Stadthuys, Christ Church and Dutch Melaka
Red buildings that carry a 350-year-old story.
Aceh, Perak and the tin wars
Rival sultans fought over the tin of the Kinta valley.
Kelantan and Terengganu: the east coast courts
Court, trade and Siam on the east coast.
The Malay world's cultural stories: wayang, hikayat, adat
Plays, tales and laws kept memory alive.
5 family lines linked to this shelf
A line being common in a place does not mean everyone there carries it, and it never settles who anyone is.
